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Nursing Ethical Issue Review
Legal and Ethical Issues
Nursing ethical issue review: The ethics of faculty misconduct
Although ethical issues have been increasingly showcased within the nursing curriculum, according to Fowler & Davis (2013), less attention has been paid to the ethical concerns which are raised within the process of nursing education itself. In a review of Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and PubMed databases only 10% of the nursing journal articles that were identified actually addressed ethical issues in nursing education and issues that were often discussed in more general literature on ethics in higher education, such as faculty sexual misconduct, were not addressed at all (Dowler & Davis 2013:127).
While teacher-student sexual relations are legally prohibited because of the student's age at a high school level, the question of consent becomes considerably more complex at a college level. "When sexual relationships...
Unwanted sexual advances by anyone, particularly someone in a position of power, can be intimidating or even frightening, which may impact whether or not a survivor feels comfortable reporting what has happened" (Martin, 1993). In other words, technically nursing students may be 'of age' but that does not necessarily mean that there cannot be elements of coercion if a faculty member should make sexual advances to the student.
The paucity of literature on the subject may not simply be rooted in a desire of authors to make the nursing profession 'look good' but also because there tends to be an assumed gender imbalance in favor of females at all nursing schools. However, this assumption is problematic for several reasons: first and foremost, sexual harassment can be female-on-female. Secondly, there are male faculty and students at nursing schools. Regardless of who…
References
Fowler, M. & Davis, A. (2013). Ethical issues occurring within nursing education. Nursing Ethics, 20(2) 126 -- 141.
Professor-student sexual assault. (2013). Pact5. Retrieved:
http://pact5.org/resources/prevention-and-readiness/professor-student-sexual-assault/
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